Brazil Signs UN Resolution Against Iran

Brazil Signs UN Resolution Against Iran - Brazil, on Tuesday signed (resolution) UN sanctions against Iran despite the alarming actions after his attempt to negotiate an exchange agreement with the Islamic state's nuclear.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed the decree "because there is a tradition to practice the resolutions of the UN Security Council, including sanctions that we do not agree", said Foreign Minister Celso Amorim told reporters, as quoted from the AFP.

Brazil and Turkey voted against the resolution that the UN sanctions when sanctions were proposed in the UN Security Council last June.

Both countries had an agreement from Tehran memerantarai May to hand over many of stock that has been slightly enriched uranium in exchange for nuclear fuel which has a higher enrichment that can not be used to develop atomic weapons.

United States and its allies say the deal is not enough and continue the sanctions resolution.

Washington worried that Iran is developing nuclear arsenals with the pseudonym of its energy program, something Tehran denies.

Brazilian officials have said they will monitor the sanctions imposed on Iran, regardless of their opposition to sanctions.

Taiwan Man 'Marries' Goddess

Taiwan Man 'Marries' Goddess - A Taiwanese man out of luck in earthly love has married a goddess after she ordered him to do so in a dream, a report said Wednesday. The man, identified by his family name Lin, claimed the Lotus Fairy, a Taoist deity, started coming to him in his sleep after he went to her temple to seek her blessing following a series of failed relationships, said CTS TV.

The goddess soon instructed Lin to marry her, and to comply the 40-year-old held a “wedding ceremony” in which a young woman holding a statue of the goddess stood in for the bride, the report said. Lin signed a wedding certificate and presented a ring to the goddess in the ceremony at her temple, which was decorated with red banners, according to the report.

Since the wedding, Lin has moved the statue to his home in central Taiwan to worship her and claimed that his “wife” has protected him from both illnesses and accidents, it said.

90 Pct of Women 'Sexually Harassed in The Workplace'

90 Pct of Women 'Sexually Harassed in The Workplace' - Nine in ten women have suffered some form of sexual discrimination in the workplace, a study has found. A vast majority of women workers have experienced ‘gender harassment’, which includes offensive sexist remarks or being told that they could not do their job properly due to their sex.

This more common, low-level sexist behaviour was just as damaging and distressing as overt advances, experts suggest. The researchers at the University of Michigan found that 10 per cent of the women surveyed had experienced the most severe form of harassment, in which they were promised promotion or better treatment if they were ‘sexually cooperative’.

The study questioned women in two male-dominated environments – the US military and the legal profession. It found that although few were subjected to actual advances, such as being groped, 90 per cent had been subjected to gender harassment.

This included offensive remarks about being female, their appearance, body or sexual activities. The researchers argued that this ‘leads to negative personal and professional outcomes and as such is a serious form of sex discrimination’.

Gender harassment ‘creates a hostile environment that disadvantages women’, they said. Often dismissed as a misguided attempt to draw women into romantic relationships, such behaviour actually rejects women and drives them out of jobs, they said.

The findings, in Springer’s journal of Law and Human Behaviour, concluded that harassment victims fared poorly at work. They were far more likely to develop health problems that affected their performance.